Chapter 229: One Scapegoat Destroyed an Entire Ninja Village
Consciousness gradually returned…
The moment Li Jiexuan opened his eyes, he couldn't help but frown. At some point, the Kazekage's office had become covered in dust.
Pushing the door open, he was even more stunned by what he saw…
The entire Kazekage building had fallen into ruin, with traces of ninjutsu devastation everywhere. Stepping outside, Sunagakure was no longer the prosperous village it once was.
On the broken streets, beggars appeared every few steps. Injured and crippled Sand shinobi lay on the ground, barely breathing—yet not a single person offered help.
"What exactly happened?" Li Jiexuan instinctively questioned the system. "Didn't I return to the main world? Am I still in the trial world?"
"No, Host has been confirmed to have returned to the main world!"
"Then what is going on here?" Li Jiexuan looked around in confusion. It wasn't just the Kazekage's office—the entire village seemed to have gone through a great war.
But the strange thing was, when he had broken through Sunagakure's gates before, they hadn't resisted. They hadn't even fought within the village…
"Ding, small reminder…"
The system's cold voice suddenly sounded: "In the trial world, due to differences in the flow of time, the main world's time does not pass."
Li Jiexuan nodded. "That's right!"
"But if the trial scenario ends and the Host does not return to the main world, then time in the main world will proceed in sync with the duration the Host remains in the trial scenario!"
The system's explanation left Li Jiexuan completely stunned…
That meant, from the moment he drove the Allied Shinobi Forces out of the Land of Rain and the Second Great Ninja War ended, time in the main world had already begun to move forward in sync!
At that thought, Li Jiexuan couldn't help but swallow hard. "System, how long did I stay after completing the mission?"
"One year and three months!"
Li Jiexuan's eyes widened. "That long? No wonder everything here has changed so much!"
Just as he stood there in a daze, a hand suddenly grabbed him tightly. Turning his head, he saw Hyuga Yizhen kneeling before him, his face full of hardship, crying with snot and tears, "Captain Jiexuan, you're really alive!"
Ten minutes later, Li Jiexuan finally understood what had happened over the past year…
Back then, after capturing Sunagakure, he had directly occupied the Kazekage's residence to enter seclusion. No one thought much of it—after all, his previous sessions never lasted more than five minutes. Everyone had been happily discussing Sunagakure's surrender…
But as time passed—one day, two days, one month, two months—even after three whole months, Li Jiexuan still hadn't come out.
Finally, in the fourth month, Hyuga Yizhen broke open the door…
It was empty!
At that moment, Konoha completely fell out with Sunagakure, and a fierce battle broke out within the village…
"It was Lord Tobirama who made the first move!"
Hyuga Yizhen recalled excitedly, "After realizing you might have been harmed, Lord Tobirama rushed to Sunagakure overnight."
"When he couldn't find you, he used Flying Thunder God and stabbed Shamon to death in a single strike!" Hyuga Yizhen swallowed nervously. "In all these years, I've never seen Lord Tobirama that angry!"
Hearing this, Li Jiexuan couldn't help but feel a bit warm inside. That old man Tobirama—if he cared that much, he could've just said so…
"And then?"
"And then… Sunagakure was destroyed!"
Hyuga Yizhen said it as casually as listing dishes, yet the statement itself was shocking.
It seemed that over this past year, Hyuga Yizhen had grown quite a bit…
As for the destruction of Sunagakure, Li Jiexuan could only silently press his hands together in apology.
"Sorry… you took the blame for me."
One scapegoat… wiped out an entire ninja village.